Millions Of Dell Pcs At Risk Due To Vulnerability In Supportassist Tool
According to Dell, the vulnerability, CVE-2019-12280, was discovered in Dell’s SupportAssist application for Business (version 2.0) and Home PCs (version 3.2.1 and prior). For those unaware, SupportAssist is a software which is preinstalled on most Dell PCs to proactively examine the health of the system’s hardware and software. However, the SupportAssist software is not made by Dell but by PC-Doctor, a company that develops hardware-diagnostic software and licenses it to other electronic-device makers....